Paris Métro paper ticket reaches end of the line after more than 120 years

The Guardian says It has inspired French film-makers and songwriters, proven useful to cannabis smokers and aestheticians and served as an emergency bookmark or jotter – but now the Paris Métro ticket has reached the end of the line.

The city’s public transport authority is phasing out the rectangular pieces of cardboard that have kept the capital’s travellers on the move for the past 120 years.

Twenty years after the New York subway finished with metal tokens and 10 years after the London Underground went paperless, the Métro ticket, measuring 6.5cm x 3cm and white with a brown magnetic strip, is on a one-way journey to transport history.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/paris-metro-paper-ticket-paper-journey-transport